-
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
In 1941 Japan bombed pearl harbor. Pearl Harbor was a U.S. military base in Hawaii. Over a thousand people died. This led the U.S. into the war -
Spark of World War One
The world war began in Europe. All the countries formed alliances and just waited for a reason to attack. Then It happened, A serbian had killed Austria-Hungary's own Arch Duke, Franz Ferdinand. Austria-hungary declared war on Serbia -
Period: to
Trench Warefare
Throught this time soldiers on both sides of the war dug trenches many miles long. Trenches were dug to protect the soldiers. Many times soldiers were orderd to charge the area bettween the trenches. It was considerd less safe than a suicide mission. -
Overthrowing Tsar Nicholas
Russia began to have many hardships in the war. In 1917 The Russian Revolution happended. Tsar Nicholas Was thrown out of power. Lein became new tsar. Communism began to rise. -
The Treaty at Versailles
Peace was welcome after four years of bloody war where10 million men died. But this was more of a forced peace as the central powers were subjected to unfair rules. It was these rules that forced germany into an economic and social collaspe. -
The roaring Twenties
It was a time of great prosperity for the U.S. People Bought tons of new things. People came back from the war. Jazz music was invented. -
Period: to
Stalin and communism
Stalin rose to power after lenin died in 1922 and spread communism by force killing anyone who opposed him. his reign of terror ended in 1953 where he died while in partial power. -
America during the depression
The Prosperity of the roaring twenties did not last. The stock market crashed. One fourth of Americans did not have jobs. People lived in homes made out of whatever they could find. They were starving, and stood in line for hours. -
The great depresion
After years of spending americans went into debt with no homes and almost no possosions they wanderd around and made little makshift shakes out of what ever they could find called hoovervilles -
The new deal
presidant roosevelt passed a new set of deals to help the poor -
WWII, Nazi Germany
A cruel leader, named Adolf HItler Took power of Germany. He led a ruthless organization called the Nazis. Germany was so desperate they would take anyone who had an idea. Hitler built up a giant army right under everyone's noses. -
The holocaust
It is one thing WW2 will be most rememberd for. It was a time were hitler killed 6 million jews, gypsys, and homosexuals. Through these unfortunete events we have lost a great deal of good people. -
Atomic Bombs
On August 6th 1945 little boy was droped on hiroshima and on augest ninth nagasiki was droped in all they killed hundreds of thousands of people -
The cold war
United States was capitlaist. Soviet Union was Communism. Commuinism had taken over all of Europe, and was threatining to take over the U.S. The cold war was a war of words, even though there were some actual fighting, it wasn't all guns. They both built up enough Bombs to destroy eachother. -
North Korea
On the 25th of June 1950 Communist north koreas invaded south korea and started the korean war, The untited states was backing up south korea and china was representing north korea. It was the only true war between communism and democrocy. -
Vietnam
Vietnam split into Communist north and non Communist South. America sent troops to help South Vietnam. They sent troops to help Communism not spread. South Vietnam lost the war. America withdrew all the troops. The whole country became communist
